Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The general rule, at least, is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Some of her answers might excite popular prejudice, but if there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.